WWE is nothing if not patterned a lot of the time. One of the most obvious patterns is that someone with a scheduled title shot will lose a bunch of matches in a row on TV if he's going to win the title...

WWE 's second annual Battleground pay-per-view event can be summed up in one word...well, maybe more of a guttural utterance: Ugh. If you skipped the show, you're probably wondering how this happened...

While there are plenty of things to criticize about the creative direction of WWE as of late and their hesitance to take risks, on the micro level, they were more than willing to experiment with telling stories differently in the past...

Contains spoilers for this week's edition of SmackDown . What appears to be the bulk of the Battleground card was finalized l ast night at the SmackDown tapings in Ottawa, Ontario (h/t WrestlingInc ...

It's been a little more than a month since Seth Rollins turned on Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose, causing the split of The Shield, and all three are coming along nicely. Roman Reigns is clearly being pushed as WWE 's next big star...

According to F4WOnline.com and a number of other sites, last night at the WWE house show in his (actual) hometown of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Santino Marella (real name Anthony Carelli ) announced his retirement as a professional wrestler...

There was an interesting note in the newest issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscription required; h/t WrestlingInc .com ) about some recent adjustments that WWE wrestlers have been encouraged to make...

You may or may not have noticed that during WrestleMania season, Vince McMahon was advertised, both as his Mr. McMahon character and as himself, for a number of events, only to be pulled from subsequent advertisements...

Bad News Barrett injured his shoulder last night , most likely taking him out of this Sunday's match for the Money in the Bank contract at the eponymous pay-per-view event. It's not official yet, but it's clearly touch and go right now...

Last night on Raw, after nine years with WWE , Vickie Guerrero bid farewell to the company en route to the next chapter in her life. She tweeted the following after the show: The ride has come to a halt...